The official website of Transocean, the company which operated the deep water drilling platform that exploded in 2010 and lead to the biggest oil spill disaster in history, was compromised and infected with malicious code.Swiss-based Transocean is one of the world's largest offshore drilling contractors. The com... |
26 August 2011
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a widespread web injection attack that has infected a large number of websites with code distributing a variant of the notorious Zeus trojan."Huge numbers of sites have been injected with a malicious JavaScript that attempts to load content from an exploit site when innocent u... |
15 July 2011
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A critical Internet Explorer vulnerability patched by Microsoft last week is being exploited targeted attacks launched from websites that infect computers with malware.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-1255, affects Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8, running on all supported Windows operating systems.It ... |
21 June 2011
14:46 GMT |
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Security researchers are concerned that a new Google Chrome feature called Instant Pages might enhance exploitation attacks.In an attempt to make the web experience faster, Chrome will load the content behind top search result links in the background. In this way, when the user clicks on that link, the page loads alm... |
16 June 2011
12:58 GMT |
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Security Researchers from Trend Micro have intercepted a new drive-by download attack which exploits a critical Internet Explorer vulnerability in order to install multiple malware components on targeted systems.Drive-by download attacks are a common and effective malware propagation method and are usually launched f... |
29 December 2010
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Several websites from the TechCrunch Network, including TechCrunch Europe, MobileCrunch and CrunchGear fell victim to a code injection attack, which served malware to visitors.Founded in 2005, TechCrunch is one of the most popular technology blogs on the Internet. Since then it has evolved into a network or websites... |
7 September 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Thousands of websites hosted at Network Solutions have been compromised and had their index pages injected with a malicious IFrame. This appears to be a reiteration of an attack that took place over a week ago, but targeted only WordPress-powered blogs.The new mass injection attack has been reported by Sucuri Securit... |
21 April 2010
10:37 GMT |
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